Borders in
Globalization (BIG) is an innovative, integrative, and sustainable network of
academic partners from Canada, the United States, Europe, Asia, and the Middle
East, which is engaged with non-academic organizations that are involved in the
management of borders and borderlands in Canada and worldwide. Border studies
are global in reach, and so we ground our core partnership in Canada and
associate with key research centers worldwide.

The basic goal is
to build excellence in the knowledge and understanding of borders. To this end,
the partners work together to create new policy and foster knowledge transfer
in order to address such globalization forces as security, trade and migration
flows, and also to understand the forces of technology, self-determination and
regionalization that are affecting borders and borderlands in regions around
the world.